Monday through Friday, May 9-13, 2016
Capstone Project Presentations begin - Check Sign-up Sheet and Calendar.
Day 1: The Emergence of the Non-Western World
In-class: Introduce the emergence of Asia and the Middle East. Report and chronicle current events.
Homework for Day 3: Read "China's Great Leap Forward" through "The Chinese-Soviet Split," p. 745, and "East Asia and the Rise of the Pacific Rim," and "The Economic Transformation of China," p. 788 in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, take notes on the follow key terms and persons, and prepare responses to the related questions below.
Key terms and persons: The Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, the Four Modernizations, the New Economic Zones, and the Tienanmen Square "Incident".
Question #1: How did Mao try to transform China in the 1950s and 60s, and what were the results?
Question #2: How has China been able to modernize so quickly since the early 1980s, and what have been the results of that transformation process?
Day 2: Long periods.
Meet in classroom if there are presentations; use the remaining time to work on capstone projects.
Day 3: The Emergence of Contemporary China.
In-class: Discuss the reading and questions on the emergence of contemporary China.
Homework for Day 4: Read "The Challenge of Islam" and "International Terrorism and War," and "Upheavals in North Africa and the Middle East," in The West in the World, eds.Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 788-794, take notes on the follow key terms and persons, and prepare responses to the related questions below.
Key terms and persons: The Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, 9/11, al-Qaeda, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, War in Afghanistan, War in Iraq, preemptive war, unilateralism, and the Arab Spring.
Question #1: What explains the rise of radical Islamic movements and the use of terrorism in the Middle East, and increasingly around the world, and what have been the consequences?
Question #2: Why did the Arab Spring occur, and what have been the results?
Day 4: The Contemporary Islamic World, Islamic Extremism, and the Arab Spring.
In-class: Discuss the readings and questions on contemporary Islam.
No homework over the weekend; work on capstone projects.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
Course Description
Welcome! This site is for students, parents, teachers and anyone else interested in the tenth-grade World History 2 Course at Santa Fe Prep.
The overall course covers the history of the world from roughly 1500 to the present. The first quarter opens with the time when Asia was the center of world affairs, then traces European encounters with Asia and the Americas, and the complex interactions and consequences of the so-called "Columbian Exchange" between Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. The first quarter ends with a survey of the European Renaissance and Reformation, in both its local and global dimensions. The second quarter will focus on the rise of absolute monarchies and new ideas and practices, especially with the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. The second quarter ends with assessments of the legacies of the French Revolution, Napoleon and the emergence of the British Empire. The third quarter starts with the implications of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars in the wake of the Congress of Vienna, i.e., the discourse on rights, reaction, revolution and reform, the rise of new ideologies, in particular, Classical Liberalism, nationalism, and romanticism, and conservative reactions to the changes wrought by the American and French Revolutions. The course then examines the rise of industrialization and social change in 19th-century Europe, and the emergence of middle and working class cultures, followed by new iterations of liberalism and conservatism, the proliferation of more ideologies, e.g., socialism, communism, ultranationalism, social Darwinism, and antisemitism. Then the course examines the unification of the Italian and German nation states, and the creation of the modern welfare state. From there the course traces the rise of a new wave of Western imperialism, followed by the rest of the world's reactions to the rise of European empires and ideas, and in particular, the emergence of industrial Japan and their surprising victory over Russia. The third quarter ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The fourth and final quarter surveys the effects of the First World War, followed by the brief peak of classical liberal nation states and promises for peace, and the rapid rise of authoritarianism, in both communist and fascist variations, with a special focus on the rise of Nazism, the Nazi racial transformation of Germany and the Holocaust and Shoah of modern Europe. The fourth quarter concludes by looking at the causes and effects of the Second World War, the Cold War, the end of European empires in Asia and Africa, the emergence of the Modern Middle East and China, the end of the Cold War, history since 1989, all the way to the present, including current events.
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